This Week In Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, And SCADA Was IOT Before IOT Was Cool

Rowhammer attacks have been around since 2014, and mitigations are in place in most modern systems, but the team at gddr6.fail has found ways to apply the attack to current-generation GPUs. …read more

TurboQuant: Reducing LLM Memory Usage With Vector Quantization

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are massive vector spaces in which the probabilities of tokens occurring in a specific order is encoded. Billions of …read more

AI For The Skeptics: Pick Your Reasons To Be Excited

It’s odd being a technology writer in 2026, because around you are many people who will tell you that your craft is outdated. Like the manufacturers of buggy-whips at the …read more

2026 Hackaday Europe: First Round Of Speakers Announced!

Hackaday Europe is the continental version of the Ultimate Hardware Conference, taking place May 16th and 17th, and you need to be there! We’ll continue to announce speakers and workshops …read more

CCA Ethernet Cables: Not Up To Scratch, But Are They Dangerous?

If you’ve ever bought a suspiciously cheap Ethernet cable from an online listing, there’s a decent chance you’ve encountered Copper Clad Aluminum. Better known as CCA, it’s exactly what it …read more

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Who Had “New OS For The Z80” On Their 2026 Bingo Card?

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By Tyler August | April 12, 2026

Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has come up with a brand new, from scratch OS called NostOS for …read more
The Complex Transformations Underlying MC Escher’s Works

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By Maya Posch | April 12, 2026

Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewhere within the image that one is looking at, something which …read more
Green Powered Challenge: Solar Powered Pi Hosts Websites In RAM

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By Tyler August | April 12, 2026

If you started with computers early enough, you’ll remember the importance of the RAMdisk concept: without a hard drive and with floppies slow and swapping constantly, everything had to live …read more
Making The Forgotten 1982 Game Adventure Canoe Run On MAME

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By Maya Posch | April 12, 2026

A while back [Jack] came across a Taito arcade game that neither he nor any of his mates recognized. The game was Adventure Canoe and part of the collection of …read more
Passive Radar Explained

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By Al Williams | April 12, 2026

It is an old trope in submarine movies. A sonar operator strains to hear things in the ocean but dares not “ping” for fear of giving away the boat’s location. …read more
Testing Refrigerants And Capillary Tubes To Find Peak Performance

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By Maya Posch | April 11, 2026

Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation of such a system that determines exactly how efficient it is. After making …read more
Kiki Is The Unknown Array Language

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By Al Williams | April 11, 2026

Kiki bills itself as the “array programming system of unknown origin.” We thought it reminded us of APL which, all by itself, isn’t a bad thing. The announcement post is …read more

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